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The
importance of nutrition in your quest towards
achieving your personal best....
In the April
2005 issue of "Runner's World", Paul
Scott writes of the phenomena of "bonking".
"We're
not talking about the mere cramping of a
calf, or the everyday slowing caused by
lactic acid build-up, or the deep muscle
pain sometimes caused by downhill running.
Marathoners used to call bonking "hitting
the wall," but it's actually a bodily form
of sedition. In some form or another, it
becomes a collapse of the entire system:
body and form, brains and soul.
Consider the muscle-glycogen bonk, where the
brain works fine but the legs up and quit.
Then there's the blood-glucose bonk, where
the legs work fine but the brain up and
quits. Let's not forget the everything bonk,
a sorry stewpot of dehydration, training
errors, gastric problems, and nutrition
gaffes."
Even if you
haven't experienced bonking to the degree of
seeing tiny purple men running up and down the
sides of cliffs, unless your second passion is
nutrition, you may not be properly fueling
your body for the upcoming commitment to
running a race.
Proper nutrition
is an essential part of any
training regime and since every body is
different, every nutrition plan will be
different.
The first step in developing an optimal
nutrition plan is to carefully assess where
you are right now, not only with regards to
your diet, but also your training and even
your level of motivation. This is what makes
creating an optimal nutrition plan more of a
journey than a task.
In addition to the wide range of variables
present as you begin fueling your body for
optimal performance, there are variables that
arise throughout the training process.
Are you looking for increased speed? Then you
may want to shift to high glycemic foods to
fuel your burst of energy.
Want to run longer? Have you tried a careful
balance of foods with a high, medium and low
glycemic index?
Once an optimal nutrition plan is developed
and implemented, we evaluate it for its
success. Just as this race is part of training
for the next one, so goes the development of
optimal nutrition. It's a life long journey of
learning and growing.
Are you ready
to begin?
If not now? Then when?
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